Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts.

God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.

Cure the disease and kill the patient.

The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.

A cat will never drown if she sees the shore.

I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy myself.

A man that hath no virtue in himself, ever envieth virtue in others. For men's minds, will either feed upon their own good, or upon others' evil; and who wanteth the one, will prey upon the other; and whoso is out of hope, to attain to another's virtue, will seek to come at even hand, by depressing another's fortune.